Quixotic Ground Sloth: three themes in the search for a more natural green architecture

Thoughtbox

If the way a house is designed cannot persuade its owner to be moral, then at the very least it can persuade him that simple cost-benefit analysis still points to doing the right thing environmentally.
"i believe, as a hypothesis, that sustainability in its present terms will contribute to separate man and nature by dominating and exploiting nature in a more rational way" (F.J. Soria López)
"First we had nature. And then came the Environment. Environment is the smoke humanity has put on nature: the people who used Latin had no word for environment — they knew only natura." (Gustav Metzger, Symposium on Sustainability)
Energy efficiency shouldn't be used as an excuse for consumptive excess.

Sustainable Architectures: Cultures and Natures in Europe and North America / Ed. by Simon Guy & Steven A. Moore
done: The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945 / Hal K. Rothman
done: First Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement / Benjamin Kline, Ph.D.
Eco-Architecture: Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature / ed. by Broadbent & Brebbia
done: Loving Nature: Towards an ecology of emotion / Kay Milton
done: The World Without Us / Alan Weisman